By a margin of just three votes, former Montezuma County Commissioner Larry Don Suckla has officially won the Republican primary for state House District 58. And the City of Cortez and Cortez Police Department have launched a project to improve safety for all forms of transportation in the city.

Local weather has been "manic," and Utah’s Phil Lyman is seeking to show that incumbent Governor Spencer Cox did not legitimately defeat Lyman in the June 25 Republican primary for governor.

Whether a Dollar General store can be built just off Highway 1`45 between Dolores and Cortez is still undecided.

A half-dozen residents of Cortez sharply criticized new water rates in the city during Tuesday’s meeting of the city council.

Critics of a planned biochar facility at the former Ironwood plant southwest of Dolores voiced blistering criticism of both Ironwood and the Montezuma County commissioners at Tuesday’s commission meeting.

Thursday night's massive Fourth of July fireworks display by the City of Cortez ended abruptly because of gunfire in the middle of the celebration. According to the Cortez Police Department, a 17-year-old has been arrested in the incident.

The Pretrial Services program offered by the Montezuma County Sheriff’s Office has ended as of July 1.

With city staff facing a continuing deluge of open-records requests, the Cortez City Council voted 6 to 1 at its meeting July 25 to raise the hourly fee that is charged for fulfilling such requests.

The biggest housing challenge in Montezuma County is not that there are too few houses but that many available homes are fairly old.

Montezuma County and the commissioners are being sued over the denial of a high-impact permit for a Dollar General store to be built at Highway 145 and Road N.